Natural Earth Striving Rick Simmons 03/24/2014

Natural Earth Striving is the context of this organization and its name. It is also a new Earth Ethic. Currently, we strive to see things in a more anthropocentric context. If we strive to be Natural Earth Striving, we minimize conflicts with nature and humanity. With this context, we attempt to innovate, create, and imagine integrating nature, love, and compassion as one of the most significant things we can do to help our world recover from years of ultra-competition, excessive greed, and extreme competition for resources. In a cumulatively speaking sense, we appear to be in a significant downward spiral feedback loop in many ways. We need to do what is necessary in a more rational, reasonable, risk-assessing, and more real way to dynamically and sustainably strive towards dynamic equilibrium instead of extremely detrimentally impacting oscillations associated with a more reactionary way things are world. Natural Earth Striving believes that we can approach the problems of our world in a multidisciplinary, multidimensional, and integrated way. The goal is to transform into an integrated science context way of doing things because it makes sense, not just because it is a different way of looking at things. We must move beyond the excessive debate and political arguing towards this new problem-solving integrated assessment perspective because we have no choice. There are too many issues and problems in this world, such that the sole reactionary perspective does not incorporate enough holistic planning perspectives to work towards a sustainable, striving planet Earth and everything associated with it systematically. The time to make this transition is now. The Earth has way too many problems that need attention including: poverty, starvation, homelessness, pollution in all forms, impacted ocean ecosystems, terrestrial food systems, inefficient and resource wasting globalization methods, political wars, irrational compensation policies and procedures, over complexity and valuing process and procedure over everything else, crime, murder and killing in all forms, character assassinations, renewable energy prioritization, reactive detrimentally impacting investigations, countless environmental and social issues that need attention, education prioritization, non-well intentioned surveillance, irrational anthropocentric organization of systems and geography, irrational and inefficient infrastructure, lack of prioritization of issues, detrimental feedback loops, getting people in trouble instead of helping context, irrational stock market and market based economy, top down control of finance and opportunity, irrational segmentation and itinerant complexity creation, and many others. There is a need for continuous employment (inclusion) from an ecological perspective for all people and a 100 percent well-intentioned holistic, integrated human health perspective. There are many other opportunities to integrate nature, ecological, and geospatial geography into our world. We must love, care for, and respect one another as human beings and as worthwhile contributors working together to create a more sustainable and striving planet Earth. No one will be left behind; we must not give up on anyone. The goal is to work together with those individuals and organizations that can visualize and understand the systems and processes more rationally so we can present the way things are today and the potential way things could be if planned closer to nature. People must value all of nature, including every human being because we are all a part of nature. We must look beyond traditional bottom-line thinking and move towards more ecological value, energy, and benefit-producing behavior. Investments should add value to our beneficial ecological functioning through incentives, ecological equilibrium compensation, and disincentives to invest in those detrimentally impacting planet Earth, individuals, relationships, communities, regions, society, the natural environment, or any related systems. Individuals and organizations should not primarily prioritize being rich in the bottom-line sense but strive to add as much ecological energy, benefits, and value to our world and all its functioning, including our society. Wealth should relate to this concept rather than an ultra-competitive, out-of-control, market-based, globalized world. Wealth should follow beneficial ecological value, energy, and benefits creation. In other words, we shouldn’t be compensating as much in a relative sense to those organizations and individuals that add significant detrimental impacts to our planet. We must first care about compensating those who care about everything of higher relative importance. We ought to prioritize more local functioning and provide disincentives for functioning on more inefficient scales. Likewise, we ought to provide more disincentives for those organizations functioning with significant detrimental impacts, cumulatively speaking, and incentives for those producing beneficial ecological energy, benefits, and value for our world. Everyone on Earth needs every individual on this planet to do what they can to help. Every individual knows most about the things they know about, and the time has come to get everyone on a sustainable striving path toward a sustainable striving planet Earth. It is more of a relative weighting thing because everyone has their own experience, education, motivations, location, interests, and desire to help make the world a better place by doing whatever they are good at and contributing what they contribute. There is nothing but optimism and incentives for people to learn and experience life in a way that can be a natural earth-striving world. Earth is a sustainable striving planet.